Friday, October 30, 2009

In my last post, I mentioned that I had abandoned Pardus 2009 on the EeePC 901 primarily because I couldn't get a wireless connection but also because the kwin 3D effects were not, IMO, impressive.So back to Pardus 2008.2 with the intention of installing KDE4 and thereby getting what I saw as the only benefit of Pardus 2009 (although I'm sure there are more that I haven't yet discovered).While still in KDE3.5, I installed both compiz-fusion (and many dependencies incl fusion-icon), yakuake and Opera 10.10.Then to get KDE4 running here are the main steps that I got from this thread:

sudo pisi it kdebase4

To stop KDE3 and start KDE4, here's the procedure:Go to TTy1 (ctrl-Alt-F1) and login as root. Then issue the following commands:

service kdebase stop

service kdebase4_workspace start

To get KDE4 to launch on boot, issue these commands

sudo service kdebase off

sudo service kdebase4_workspace on

This works perfectly for me on the EeePC 901. Additionally, compiz-fusion provides 3D effects in KDE4 that, IMO, are so much better than those available through kwin.Only one thing on the downside which is that the rt2860sta module only provides a wireless connection when no encryption is provided for the connection. Of course, this is not a good idea but for the moment I see no way put of it. I'll post to the Pardus forum about this but don't anticipate that there'll be a solution.Also, I'll update the bug report I made on this same issue for Pardus 2009.

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